Al-Kadesiah

The al-Kadesiah is an Iraqi variant of the Dragunov and PSL sniper rifles developed in 1971 by the al-Qadisiyya Establishment. Although it was very similar to the Dragunov, it had no interchangeable parts with it, but it stripped down in the exact same way and was used as the Iraqi version of the weapon by the Iraqi Army and later by Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War. It was named for the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah during the Arab conquest of Persia.